To clear away the shadows

To clear away the shadows

David Drake, 1945-

Book - 2019

"The truce between Cinnabar and the Alliance is holding, and the Republic of Cinnabar Navy is able to explore regions of the galaxy without the explorers being swept up in great power conflict. The Far Traveller is probing sponge space to open routes for Cinnabar traders--and for RCN warships if war breaks out again. But besides astrogation, the Far Traveller is to survey and catalog life forms on the worlds it touches. Harry Harper has just been posted to the Traveller. He's an RCN officer by convention, a scientist by training--and a member of one of leading aristocratic families on Cinnabar by birth. Lieutenant Rick Grenville would rather serve on a warship in the heart of battle, but peace and the whim of the Navy Board have p...ut him on an exploration vessel instead. He finds that the dangers on the fringes of civilization are just as great as those from missiles and gunfire that he expected to face. As internal struggles cause the Alliance to relax its iron grip, regional forces are attempting to increase their own power--and they're not fussy about the means they use. Besides the biological answers that officials on Cinnabar expect the Far Traveller to find, the ship's Director of Science, Doctor Veil, has her own agenda: to learn more about the Archaic Spacefarers who roamed the universe tens of thousands of years before humans reached the stars. The crew of the Far Traveller is poised to clear more of the shadows away from the deep past than ever before in human history--if they survive"--

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Subjects
Leary, Daniel (Ficticious character) > Fiction.
Mundy, Adele (Ficticious character) > Fiction.
Pirates > Fiction.
Women spies > Fiction.
Space flight > Fiction.
Imaginary wars and battles > Fiction.
Science fiction.
Genres
Science fiction
Published
Riverdale, NY : Baen [2019]
Language
English
Main Author
David Drake, 1945- (author)
Item Description
"Baen Books original."
Physical Description
viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781481484022
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

In homage to nineteenth-century sea explorers, the thirteenth book in Drake's Republic of Cinnabar Navy (RCN) series (after Though Hell Should Bar the Way, 2018) veers away from the adventures of Captain Daniel Leary and intelligence operative Adele Mundy to focus on the Far Traveller, a warship-turned-exploration vessel. The narrative is split between a first-person account by Lord Harry Harper, an RCN officer and biologist, and the third-person perspective of Lt. Rick Grenville, who is resigned to serving as an RCN officer in peacetime. The ship's director of science uses Harry's pedigree to open doors to the private collections of the aristocrats on fringe worlds. Her own agenda is to learn more about an ancient race of space explorers who lived millennia before humans left Earth. Among the adventures of the Far Traveller are kidnappings, volcanic eruptions, and encounters with pirates, each pressing the heroes to think outside of the box. Drake handles this recasting very well and provides his extensive readership the strong characters and well-crafted storytelling they've come to expect.--Don Vicha Copyright 2019 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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